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Monday, December 22, 2014

Despite all obstacles and challenges, we, the Indonesian Community of Wellington plus Palmerston North Papuan students, have been successfully participating in the Wellington Santa Parade 14 Dec 2014.

Success, success, success! Smile, smile, smile! Joy, joy, joy!

No doubt everyone had a memorable moment and experience in promoting our Indonesia to more than 60,000 New Zealanders, which is the highest record of direct encounter to the NZ people. We had successfully entertained Kiwi family and kids and given them fun and joy to see our smiles, colourful costumes, variety of dances, interesting musical shows and float.

We have also achieved our objective to show the Indonesian soft power of friendly and broad-minded attitudes towards New Zealanders in particular, and The Western world in general, with the characteristic of tolerant, not prejudiced and Christmas joy. Rather than the other way around, unfriendly, narrow-minded, intolerant attitudes and possibly shallow thinking, which may not be suitable, or potentially unsympathetic, for the New Zealand environment or Down Under in general.

As a society of Indonesian people living in Wellington, with all of backgrounds, religions, ethnics and classes, regardless it is legitimated by the Indonesian Embassy or not, but the most important thing is that, we are invited by the Wellington City Council Santa Parade organiser, in the future we will again participate the Wellington Santa Parade. Anyone keen to join the next Santa Parade please just say yes and commit. Our event is not a 2-week plan sudden event, it is at least planned 2-3 months before the parade, therefore no maneuver action, no hidden agenda, plenty of time to think and change of mind is acceptable.

Our funding scheme is in the form of partnership between us through donations and the main sponsors Indonesian Embassy and Defence Attache Office without touching the other society or cultural funding cake. Indonesian participation in the Wellington Santa Parade is not a competing-funded cultural and society activity, but it is fundamentally a supportive society activity to promote Indonesia to New Zealanders.

Around September and October 2015, there will be an invitation of expression of interest to participate in the 2015 Wellington Santa Parade.

We would like to express our gratitude and appreciation to all parties and participants that had been involved in the parade. Apologies if any names are missed in this thank you notes and statements of appreciation.

Nino Triono: acknowledgement as President of Kamasi Wellington
Endah Setyaningsih: acknowledgement as President of PPI Wellington

Finances
Thank you to Endah Setyaningsih, as the president of Indonesian Student Association of Wellington (PPI Wellington), for the permission to use PPI Wellington's account as the vehicle. It has been agreed to keep the surplus to this account to be used for future event of promoting Indonesia to New Zealanders.
Revenues: $2,143, Expenses: $1,824, Surplus: $319 (kept in PPI's account for future event of promoting Indonesia to New Zealanders).
Revenues of $2,143 consists of: $1,000 funding from the Indonesian Embassy and Defence Attache Office and $1,143 from donations.

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This blog is to document participation of Indonesian community in Santa Parades held in main cities of New Zealand (Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch and Hamilton). Yes, from the past years and... well... for the years to come...